Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: ibm_db node module and IBM Data Server Driver

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Okay, that’s fair. Not pointless.

Yet, if you can get equally good performance from CGIDEV2 and COBOL, or
from XMLSERVICE wrappers and CGI, then why would RPG or COBOL developers
want to go through the hassle of learning asynchronous programming with
JavaScript and node? What do they gain from using node?

Well, I believe you get BETTER performance from COBOL.

What do people that drive chevy's gain from VW making cars? Choice. Same
thing here. Sometimes with Node there is no choice. Example, Braintree
requires you use an SDK to communicate with their systems. RPG won't
work. So you can use Node, et al.

Learning async isn't a hassle, but it's a lot different than most RPG/COBOL
programmers are used to.

And, if node on the IBM i does not perform better than CGI under
conditions of very high concurrency, then that may become an argument for
running node on servers other than IBM i.

No it doesn't. I don't know where you're getting this from. :)

That’s the sentiment behind my statement. I was wrong to say it was
pointless. But the attraction of node to many large companies is its
performance under conditions of very high concurrency. These companies
could have chosen CGI options. They didn’t. They chose node. If the
performance potential of node on the IBM i has been reduced to being the
same as CGI, that really undercuts what many companies are looking for in
node.

People don't choose node for performance. Not saying it's poor
performance. They choose it because maybe all they can find are Node
Programmers, or they're locked into using OSS for one reason or another.

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 ext. 12676
www.dotfoods.com<http://www.dotfoods.com>

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